Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 03:35:19 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: docs@FreeBSD.org Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: RFC: even more staleness on the web site Message-ID: <20120608083519.GA8252@lonesome.com>
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I'm very encouraged to see that folks are looking for staleness on the FreeBSD.org website. Some of the attention recently has been focused on stale URLs. I'l like to pop up one level and suggest that there are certain areas of the website that have altogether outlived their usefulness, regardless of the state of the URLs they contain. My ill-thought-out suggestion would be to somehow create a "historical interest" section (subdirectory?) and to populate it with the following. I'm, of couse, willing to entertain any suggestions, but these are the ones that in the past have made me go "ew." almost certainly need to move: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/checkpoint/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ (nb: anything referencing "dedicated mode" *must immediately die*) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/storage-devices/ (nb: contains "what is SCSI". yeah baby.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/ (nb: abandoned for years. mea culpa. *must* be deleted. a followon on the wiki would be welcomed.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/ (nb: ohforf) http://www.freebsd.org/kse/ http://www.freebsd.org/smp/ (as previously noted on IRC. but don't fix it, kill it. too stale to live.) http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html (I shouldn't have to say this) for possible consideration: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/casestudy-argentina.com/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hats/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/ipsec-must/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/relaydelay/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/ Some pages that reference the above bitrot (I'm sure there are others): http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ (KAME? wtf??) http://www.freebsd.org/where.html (pretty sure "floppy disk" and "magnetic tape" are ready for /dev/null) I'm willing to entertain suggestions/criticism/etc. mcl
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